Overheads and PowerPoint Presentations

My 'Blackboard' (stuff I occasionally write on a Word doc during lectures) Download My 'Blackboard' (stuff I occasionally write on a Word doc during lectures)

Weeks 1 and 2

• 'Introduction' PowerPoint Download 'Introduction' PowerPoint
• Generic schema of Roman government 
• Rudimentary timeline Download Rudimentary timeline
• Maps of Roman Empire: see Jones pp. 176-181
• Summary of events from 63 BC to AD 14: see Jones vi-ix (we'll refer to this and the genealogical chart there quite a bit!)

Week 3

• The Augustan Settlement of 27 BC Summarized
• The Settlement of 23 BC
• Summary of Augustus' Powers

Week 4

• The Cursus Honorum (the 'order of offices' or 'magistracies')
• Career Inscriptions
  
  • Plancus inscription (C&F C5a)
  • Varius inscription (C&F C5c)
  • Dolabella inscription (C&F C5b)
• The Roman Provinces in AD 14 (the year of Augustus' death) (Links to an external site.) -- useful for figuring out where the provinces are)

Week 5

• The Roman Legion
• The Roman Imperial Army
• Location of Roman Legions in 125 AD (Links to an external site.) (later than the Augustan period, but still relevant and useful)
• The Augustan Army Reforms
• The Augustan Financial Reforms

Week 6

• Outline of Vergil's Aeneid
• Shield of Aeneas
• Aeneid 6.208-211
• Map of Ancient Italy

Week 7

• (Approximate) Chronology of Horace's Works
• Principal Horatian Themes in the Odes (C&F F11-27)
• The meter of Horace Odes 1.37 (compared with Vergil Aeneid 1.1-6) Download The meter of Horace Odes 1.37 (compared with Vergil Aeneid 1.1-6)
• The Works of Ovid

Week 8

• List of buildings/monuments we study and page references to photos, discussions, plans, etc. in our texts
• PowerPoint: Portraits (Prima Porta, Gemma Augustea, etc.) Download PowerPoint: Portraits (Prima Porta, Gemma Augustea, etc.)

Week 9

• PowerPoint: Mausoleum of Augustus and Ara Pacis Download PowerPoint: Mausoleum of Augustus and Ara Pacis
• PowerPoint: Forum of Julius Caesar and Forum of Augustus Download PowerPoint: Forum of Julius Caesar and Forum of Augustus
• PowerPoint: The Palatine complex Download PowerPoint: The Palatine complex
• PowerPoint presentation: Religion in the Augustan period (forthcoming) Download PowerPoint presentation: Religion in the Augustan period (forthcoming)

Week 10

• Principal (known) instances of Augustan legislation (this is repeated in PP presentation)
• PowerPoint presentation: Law in the Augustan period  Download PowerPoint presentation: Law in the Augustan period 
• My list of (very basic) noteworthy accomplishments of the Augustan period